Gravity Resources

Here are some websites that will help you learn about the force of gravity.

Fear of falling - gravity page
This site gives you good summary of why things fall and you can try dropping things from different heights to see what happens.



Physics for Kids - Gravity
A good explanation with helpful pictures.



Thinkquest gravity link

BBC Gravity

Cool Science Facts

School for Chapions - gravity

Zephyrus Gravity Page

Gravity vs Upthrust

What Goes Up, Must Come Down
This site looks at how every object is attracted to other objects and this is called gravity.


From Apples to Orbits

This site looks at what gravity is and how it effects us.

The Galileo Games

This site looks at the experiments that Galileo made with dropping objects of two different sizes to see which would fall first. What do you think would happen? (click on Galileo's Experiments to start)

Gravity Hurts

This NASA site looks at what happens to the human body when in zero gravity.


Here is an invention from Leonardo da Vinci. Explain how it relates to your force (click on the picture to go to the website)